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I found this sentence on a visual novel, and it's the first time I see でも+あった
at the end of a phrase, what does it mean?

This is the sentence:

> だがその偶然はあらかじめ決められていた世界の意志 **でもあった** 。

Thank you in advance for your help


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grammar usage particle-も
Sentence ending with でもあった


Conceptually speaking でもあった is what you get by trying to combine だった and も (as
in "also").

だった is a contraction of であった and you have to use the uncontracted form in
order to insert も after で.

So で **も** あった means "it **also** was".

(In the non-past tense, the same thing happens: "だ + も = でもある".)


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